Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15
SEWER MAKING.
Plans of Sewer COnstruc-
tiOn in the City.
ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
The City PrOtited by the Improve
ment-A Hundred Thousand
Dollars i'm Sight.


known as the new form oval, and con
slructed of first-class concrete with
single brick arch, consisting of radial
brick. There will be man-holes, COW
cred with perforated castiron placed
about 300 feet apart, and lamp hole
between each man-hole, making 15O
feet distance for inspection by daylight
and lantern-light. The lamp-holes
will also have perforated covers of
castiron, and q 10x10-inch bucket to
catch dirt will be placed over the six
inch pipe, with circulation beneath it.
The man-holes will be four feet in
diameter at the bottom, and taper
from straight sides up to two feet in
diameter at the top. A bucket will
hang under the man-hole for the col
lection of dropping filth that might
fall through the perforations.
All deviations of the sewers from Il
straight line, either vertical or hori-
zontal, will be supplied with man
hole, and fall of four inches
will be given in the width
for head that would be lost by change
of direction in the sewer. Manholes
are placed at all intersections of sew
ers, and all lateral sewers are to be
straight between manholes; the juno
ton of laterals are made with curves
entirely within the manholes. These
are all given sufficient fall in addition
to their regular grade to compensate
for any retardation that bend would
cause in the flow. All laterals, ex-
cept some on the hill streets, will be
eight inches in diameter. and all sew
ers up to twelve inches in diameter
will be vitrified ironstone. Spurs for
house connections will be placed at
intervals of twenty-five feet, and the
ordinances regulating the connection
Herewith will be strictly enforced.
Plans are being prepared for the re-
lief of East Los Angeles, until such
time as the main interceptor can be
made.
1t is proposed to extend sewer on
Chavez street, hereafter to be known
as a part of North Main street, from
the present Alameda street sewer to
the Los Angeles river, where it will
cross the river to Kuhrts street in a
cast-iron pipe laid on piles sawed off
six feet below the surface of the river
bed. This sewer will drain every por-
ton of East Los Angeles that is at
present built up and furnish relief
that will at present justify the
expense of crossing the river.
East Los Angeles is a most
delightful portion of the city but must
have sewerage as soon as possible. |
The population over there is increas-
ing at wonderful rapidity and cess
pools must be abolished to protect the
lives of the people.
The plans for the relief of that por-
ton of the city around the Arroyo de
Los Reyes will soon be completed. 1t
is proposed to drain this district
through the Sixth street sewer until
the main sewer can be completed to |
the south boundary of the city.
The plan of the City Surveyor is
ample for all the needs of the city and |
the outfall conduit is large enough to
convey all the sewage to the sea. An |
examination of the country south of
the eastern portion of the city shows a |
large area of sandy land, the result of |
the freshets in the Eos Angeles river,
that needs all the sewage from the |
section that is below the level of the |
proposed conduit at Agricultural Park, |
so that no expense would be incurred
to raise the sewage by pumping, as all |
of it will be needed on the east side of |
the river.
PROFIT OF THE NEW SYSTEM.
The proposition of the owners of the
Sausal Redondo Rancho is probably |
the most profitable that was ever
offered to an American city. Eastern
cities send their sewage to the sea,
and lose all its richness, besides pol
luting the streams which generally
convey it to the ocean, while their soil
becomes impoverished. and guano has
to be imported to fertilize the gardens
of every municipality. The plan that
has been presented and advocated in
the HERALD will be no expense to the
city, but really an advantage. 1t will
bring back to the city treasury two
dollars for every one expended in its
construction, and will add $1,000, 900
to the taxable property of the county.
As an indication of the pros
pective advantages OF putting the
sewage on this tract, it is
a fact that the proprietors
can now sell the land for one hundred
thousand dollars more to spectators
than they offered to value it in their
proposition to the city to be used as a
sewage farm. Still, they are willing
to adhere to their offer, but how much
longer they will hold the proposition
open is an indeterminate question. Ii
the proposition is rejected by the city,
it will be calamity to the people of
the town and the country round about,
and in a few years the City Council
will have to do as other towns have
recently been obliged to do, purchase
land at high prices over which to carry
their sewage to the ocean, Tor pay
landowners for taking care of it.
That sewage is the source OF a
large proportion of diseases in cities is
admitted by all sensible people That
the soil or the sea is the proper re-
ceptacle for this polluted water is now
well demonstrated by scien-
tifc research; but the soil
which receives it must be
cultivated to crops. Vegetation is the
great force that transmutes pollution
and seeds of death into elements that
cause strength and long life. Thus
we
aSee diving nature life sustain
And life dissolving vegetate again"
The salubrious situation of the pro-
posed sewage farm is Incompatible.
The air is always stirring and sweet,
and admirably fitted for out door labor
such as would be necessary for farm
ing and gardening. The subject of
sewage disposal has received more
attention i'm England than in any